Welcome to the Tech Mem Right Home for Wednesday, September 4th, 2024. I'm Brian McCullough today.

SpaceX has agreed to block access to X in Brazil on Starlink. Looks like Yuba Keys are hackable.

Who is the mystery platform looking to expand AI data centers at an historic scale?

And the catch-22 that Intel is in. They need Chips Act money, but can their troubles

mean that the Chips Act money shouldn't be spent on them? Here's what you miss today

in the world of tech. This was quick. SpaceX says it's complying with a

Brazilian Supreme Court justices order to block Starlink access to X in Brazil after that country froze some of Starlink's assets.

Quoting Reuters, regardless of the illegal treatment of Starlink in freezing our assets. We are complying with the order to

block access to X in Brazil Starlink, which has more than 200,000 customers in the Latin American

nation said in a post on X. On Monday Brazil's telecom regulator

Anatel said it had been informed by Starlink that the Muskback company would not

obey the justice's order for all internet providers to block domestic

access to X.

An antel representative told Reuters, however, that Starlink had backtracked and informed the

regulator on Tuesday it would conclude the blocking within hours.

Anantel verified Starlink has already started to cut access to X in Brazil.

In its post, Starlink said it had initiated legal proceedings in the Brazilian Supreme Court explaining the

gross illegality of Moray's order that froze Starlink's

finances and prevents it from conducting financial transactions in Brazil."

Meanwhile Blue Sky says that as of September 2nd, it had added over 2 million new

users in the past week in the wake of this ban on X in Brazil, and I did not know this, but

Brazil was once one of Twitter's biggest markets it once

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